Joshua B. Gafford

I am a postdoctoral fellow at MEDLab at Vanderbilt University. My current research interests lie in workflow-conscious design and development of novel medical devices that leverage innovative engineering to improve standards-of-care in interventional endoscopic procedures. I am also interested in the translation and commercialization of medical technologies from laboratory settings into clinical and commercial sectors.

 

I received by Ph.D from Harvard University in 2018, where my research focused on developing modular robotic systems for interventional endoscopy. I also received a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. My broader research interests include precision engineering and design, mechanism design, robotics, circuit design, sensor design, control theory, state/parameter estimation and machine learning. Outside of the lab, I enjoy hobby electronics and robotics, running and lifting weights, playing soccer, playing guitar, and traveling.

 

BSME: MIT Class of 2010

MSME: Stanford University Class of 2012

Ph.D: Harvard University (Received in 2018)

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